After spending months rehashing the brutal GOP primary campaign and bragging about his victory, President Donald Trump has quietly launched a charm offensive, reaching out to former rivals whose help he now needs.

The latest on his list: Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, who has said he has significant concerns about the GOP health care bill Trump is pushing for passage. The president and first lady hosted Cruz and his wife, Heidi, and their two daughters for dinner Wednesday night — a day after Trump broke bread with Sen. Lindsay Graham, another rival, over lunch.

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Trump has also been spending time with Sen. Marco Rubio, giving him a ride to Florida on Air Force One last week and hosting him and his wife for dinner at the White House. He met recently with Gov. John Kasich of Ohio, hosted Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey and his wife for Valentine's Day meatloaf, and had a working lunch with Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin — all former campaign foes.

The meetings come as Trump continues to lob unsupported accusations at his predecessor in the White House, Barack Obama, alienating a potential source of guidance as he's turned his focus toward selling a legislative agenda that he'll need every possible ally to pass.

That means wooing former rivals like Cruz and Sen. Rand Paul, whom Trump has spoken to several times since taking office, including this week, said Paul's spokesman Sergio Gor.

But the 2016 Republican campaign was uniquely brutal, leading to some awkward interactions.

During the campaign, Trump not only went after Cruz, giving him the nickname 'Lyin' Ted,' questioning his faith and bizarrely suggesting his father may have been involved in the Kennedy assassination. He also went after Cruz's wife, re-tweeting an unflattering photo of her next to his wife and threatening to "spill the beans" on her.

Cruz responded by calling Trump "a sniveling coward" and labeling him a "pathological liar" and "utterly amoral." Cruz also declined to endorse Trump in his Republican Convention speech.

Press secretary Sean Spicer ignored a question Wednesday about whether the president intended to apologize to Heidi Cruz, saying instead: "I think they're looking forward to a great dinner."

"This is a president that's going to engage with everybody that can help join in proposing ideas and thoughts and opinions on how to move the country forward. So he looks forward to dinner tonight with Senator and Mrs. Cruz as he has with several others," he said.

Spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders noted the president has been holding meeting after meeting as he tries to sell the health care bill. "I think there's outreach to most of Congress," she said.

Cruz, who met with the president a week after the election, seemed equally willing to bury the hatchet. He told reporters ahead of the dinner that the president had called him several weeks ago and invited him and his family to dinner, and said, "we're very much looking forward to it."